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Kelly, I had one of those speech moments too. While some girlfriends and I were driving around one night, another driver didn't have his lightrs on. I blurted out to my friend driving "BLINK YOUR FLASHES." I meant to say "flash your blinkers", but even that sounds odd. I just thought of another speech and brain disengaging time. I was talking to some about our friends, Chuck and Doris. I mentioned them as "DUCK AND CLORIS".
------------------ Laura Butler Vision Graphics and Sign 560 Oak St. Lapeer, Mi 48446 810-664-3812 visiongraphics@tir.com
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Today when we were almost finished painting thay Army Surplus store with camoflage colors, and fixing the cut-out tanks etc to the parapit, an old guy came up to me and said:
"fantastic .... Looks great ... where did you get the good looking helpers?" (Katie and Sarah)
hahahahahaha
Actually this post is from ME .... Bushie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She has taken over my passwords
------------------ From Katie Wright, 16 year old professional signie wannabe from Aus.
"Life is a great big canvas, throw all the paint on it that you can"
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One of the worst comments I get is this..."Do you know what your doing?" I counter with a mean come backs or nice come backs, depends on my mood. "No I don't know what I'm doing, thank God YOU'RE here!" "You can't be drinkin' or Hungover to do that I supose Huh?" my reply.."Hell, I'm Drunk now!"
"Is this all you do for a living?" reply.."Until I get my Driver's License, then I can get the BIG money drivin' truck.GAhilt!"
"Is that supposed to have Bubbles(or Wrinkles in it?" reply..."No, but I won't charge you extra." "Will the Bubbles come out?" reply.."Only on the weekends." "If I brought down a board and you sold me some paint, could I use your brushes to do a sign for our Church group?" reply..."Sure! and while your here, how bout' pitchin' in on my shop Mortgage, heating costs, Vehicles Fuel and Maintenance, materials, electricity, water, sewer, garbage, taxes, not to mention 20 years of experience?" (Then the person goes home to their spouse who's raking 70 to 80 "G's" a year complaining that"That sign guy was sure rude, let's just get some stickers at the hardware store.) Please do.
I put some vynull letters on a semi for a guy who was on my shoulder the whole time. I finally put him to work by peeling off the backing (He was thrilled) and after we are completely finished, he says, " Now are ya gonna drop shadow all of it?" I said NO, This truck is done EXACTLY how I printed it out on the APPROVED SKETCH, that YOU signed off on. If you want it drop shadowed then you might as well just smear Mud on the doors because you will not read it. Let's make a deal, Don't try to letter trucks , and I won't drive em. O.K?
Whilst I rambled on enough, I have a Aussie related qeustion for you kids down under......Do you really THROW your pickles off ALL your hamburgers?
------------------ Mike Meyer SignPainter 575 1st Street Box 3 Mazeppa, Mn 55956 (507) 843-5951 EMail-mikemeyer@sleepyeyetel.net http://www.markfair.com/mikemeyer check out this great web site..www.grainbelt.com
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Although I don't hand letter anymore, I used to get the question "Do you do that freehand" while lettering on an outside job. It would never fail. I'd be doing a wall job, or window...and someone would come up and whilst watching me hand letter...they would ask if I was doing that freehand. Or, they would ask "How do you do that?"....to wit my response was....It's all in the wrist!
------------------ Louis A. Lazarus Milt's Sign Service, Inc. 20 So. Linden Ave. #5B 650-588-0490 fontking1a@aol.com
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i wasn't going to post a reply here but, after reading all the replies, i just can't resist....
here are some of the really stupid things i hear and the equally as ignorant responses i reply with...
"do you do that freehand?" - to this i show them my left hand and say "this hand is free" and after showing them my right with brush in hand "this one costs $100 an hour"
"you spelled it wrong.. hahahahahahaha! just kidding!" - to this i have replied "really now, i guess my spell checker must be wrong" -or- "really? wow, there is hope for the educational system in this country" -or- for those real buttheads that need to be put in their place... "oh? the dictionary in on the end of my (fill in favorite "pet name" here)... why don't you look it up?"
"boy... you sure do make that look easy" - my favorite response is "28 years in the craft will do that" but i have been known to respond with "it is... here, you wanna try it?" -or- just give them one of those "get lost" looks...
"you just charged me $50 for 30 minutes worth of work? that's like $100 an hour! thats more than my lawyer charges!" i usually give them a big grin and say "why do you think i gave lawyering to be a sign painter?" thank you steven parrish!
"did you go to school to learn that?" - i say "yup... the school of hard knocks. our school colors were black and blue".
i have other stupid responses to equally stupid questions but i will save them for another day. i saw some new responses today that intend to add to my list, especially some of mike meyers'... lol!
i do get the "yup and here's yours". he must not listen to a whole lot of radio...
you all have a great one!
------------------ Bruce Bowers DrCAS Signtech
"how great are His signs..." Daniel 4:3
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to answer your question Mike my kids always took the picles of their burgers but I didn't mind I always got to eat them
------------------ Ian Wilson Signmaker Toowoomba City Council Cnr Anzac Ave & Stephen st Toowoomba Queensland Australia may all your toubles be little ones The man that never make a mistake never makes anything
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hehehe... I take the pickles off of mine... I just don't like the taste. Alot of people don't though.... not sure if it is an aussie thing, just personal taste! Just like, I don't like beetroot, so if it is on a burger, I take it off... Ah well...
A stupid comment last night, at a party.... What do sign writers do? Hmmmm.... do you think they "write" signs??? As in paint them? I dunno... maybe. I thought the name was quite self explanatory... maybe I was wrong
------------------ From Katie Wright, 16 year old professional signie wannabe from Aus.
"Life is a great big canvas, throw all the paint on it that you can"
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Hi everyone, yeah I've had em all too, geeez i thought all the wierdos were here but the world must be infested with em
I did print Shirts the other year just for a laugh but at the same time let people know how original they really were. it had my logo on the back quite large then in all different styles and placed all over the rest of the back of my shirt were my "top ten" stupid comments most of which have been mentioned here, thought i'd be able to stop em before they opened there mouths as I'd wear it when ever i had windows to paint up the street and as they only see my back it would answer there questions with out me having to waste time turning around with my wize arse returns.
I aslo have a sign on my office door leading into my workshop that says "OW'R POLISEE IZ TOO ALLWAYZ BLAIME THA COMPUEWTA" only a coulpe people have spotted a the spelling errors
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G'day again, just thought of another "experience" while honeymooning in california a guide on one of our tours was introducing everyone, he asked me where i was from and what i did for a living. I told him I was from Australia and I was a Signwriter, now it must of got lost in my accent or somethink as he came back and said..."hey I'm a musician too....what sorta songs do ya write" heheheheh Then i realized you guys call ya selves sign painters so then informed him I was a signpainter.
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Room for one more? No one mentioned the old stand by, is that a camels hair brush. When asked if it was all done by hand, I've been tempted to say no, it was all done with my feet. The one most used years ago was how they all knew the drunken sign man who shook so bad until his brush touched the sign.
------------------ Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. Little Ferry, NJ billsr@riedelsignco.com
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Room for one more? No one mentioned the old stand by, is that a camels hair brush. When asked if it was all done by hand, I've been tempted to say no, it was all done with my feet. The one most used years ago was how they all knew the drunken sign man who shook so bad until his brush touched the sign.
------------------ Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. Little Ferry, NJ billsr@riedelsignco.com
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